July 28, 2008

Finger Knitting

The other day, both my 6 year old and 5 year old wanted me to teach them how to knit. As I was contemplating on whether or not to teach them this craft, my thoughts flashed forward to a visual scene of "what if". I foresaw a chain of events that would eventually end with all of us in the emergency room and myself explaining to the ER doctor why I thought it would be a good idea to give my kids 10" knitting needles to craft with.

I still wanted to do some sort of craft with my little ones. I have been told that as they grow older these moments will become few =(. I then remembered when I was a little girl my mom had taught me how to finger knit. I made all sorts of fun things like scarves, necklaces, and jump ropes. I decided to teach my kids this safe craft and it turned out to be a big hit. So, if you are interested, here is a tutorial on finger knitting.

Materials:

Yarn

4 Fingers =)

1. Lay a strand of yarn across your hand. I will refer to this strand as the tail.

2. Weave the yarn that is attached to the skein around your fingers like the picture above. First going under the little finger, over the ring finger, under the middle finger, and over the pointer finger.

3. Now repeat the weaving, but go back towards your little finger. First go under the pointer finger, over the middle finger, under the ring finger, and over the little finger.

4. Wrap the yarn behind your hand, moving towards your thumb, wrap it up and around the fingers that you have already woven the yarn through. Looking at the picture above, you will have the tail section across the bottom of your hand, in the middle of your hand is yarn you have woven between your fingers, and at the top is the yarn you wrapped around your fingers.

5. Starting with the little finger, take the bottom yarn (woven part, not tail) and pull it over the top yarn.

6. Your hand should look like the above picture. Repeat step 5 with the ring finger, middle finger, and lastly the pointer finger.

7. Your hand should look like the above picture when you have completed your first row. Notice the tail is now in the back. You can move it to the back whenever you want.

9. Eventually, your yarn work will look like the above picture. Take the tail and pull it. This will tighten the yarn and give it shape.

10. When you are satisfied with the length of your finger knit, cut the yarn that is attached to the skein. Be sure to leave about 5" of extra yarn. Now take the 5" of extra yarn and pull it through all of the finger loops. This will tie off or bind off the loops.

261 comments:

I teach fingerknitting to my kindergarten class! Our method is slightly different. We do two figure eights and then lift the bottom over the top, instead of having the second "row" be a straight line across.

My students like to experiment... after a while you can challenge your kids to do two strands together, to go from four fingers to three or two, etc.

Big Fun! We made "bookmarks" as Chanukkah presents. We attached a bead to each end, voila, bookmark!

My students went nuts with it. Some of them were quite competitive about it!

Would you consider doing another tutorial on single finger knitting and then making flowers out of them, if you know how.I tired following a video on the internet but it didn't work. Thanks for the great photos.

Thanks so much for putting up this clear tutorial. I just taught my daughter today to finger knit with one finger. Now I want to teach her with four :) I'm just making a blog post about it and will put up a link to your tutorial.

This looks so awesome! I knit and everytime my three year old niece comes in my room and sees my knitting basket she wants totry it too. Just to be nice I hve tried to show her but she obviously has some trouble. Hehe. I saw that someone here taught their four year old this method. She will be four in a few moths and is a smart kid so maybe she can learn this? We will try and see. I live seeing kids discover new things!!

I just learned to do this and found your site looking for ideas. I've been doing a "seed stitch" by doing the stitch differently on every-other-finger, taking the loop over on one finger, and then picking the thread through the loop on the next, etc.. The knitting comes out flat. I made a cute scarf for my 4 year old (whom I taught to finger knit last night, and she knit herself a scarf she wore to preschool today!)

I participated in a Craftanoon at the National Gallery of Australia on the weekend and learnt how to finger knit. I thought it was so much fun that I was looking for a tutorial on the web to put a link in my blog and would like to include a link to your blog - I hope thats ok with you?

Yes, as your kids grow older, the chances of them wanting to do stuff with you gets more unlikely. I taught finger knitting to my 3 kids last week. I have tons of left-over yarn and materials from testing out my new drum carders and floor looms that I can't use them all on my own. My kids then asked me if they can knit some too, so I thought them finger knitting! It's a really a fun family activity for us.

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Perfect tutorial. A neighbor child was over today. She saw all my yarn and wanted to learn to knit. She pointed out my dpn (sz 1) weren't "what she saw in commercials". So, from your photos, I taught her to finger knit. And tonight I'll set aside some needles I'm happy to lend her with a project to make her first scarf. My daughter isn't interested, because I'm always knitting. But her friend is, because she doesn't see it at home. I'll take it where I can get it. :)

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